Beyond the Forest (1949)

Minor Watson: Moose Lawson

Quotes 

• Moose : [after Rosa shoots a porcupine out of a tree]  A fat lot of good that did you.

  Rosa Moline : [Sets the rifle down]  I don't like porkies. They irritate me.

  Moose : You don't like life.

  Rosa Moline : Life in Loyalton is like sitting in the funeral parlor and waiting for the funeral to begin. No, not sitting. Lying in a coffin and waiting for them to carry you out.

• Moose : You're somethin' for the birds, Rosa, somethin' for the birds.

  Rosa Moline : And you're somethin' to make the corn grow tall!

• Rosa Moline : What makes you think you can play God?

  Moose : I'm not playing God exactly... but I'm on his side.

• Carol Lawson : Hello. We meet again. My name's Carol, Moose's daughter.

  Rosa Moline : [Stunned]  Moose's daughter? Carol Lawson. Well, this is something. Something pretty wonderful, I think. Why did you keep her a secret so long, Moose?

  Carol Lawson : It's no secret. I always knew I had a real father somewhere.

  Moose : I ran away and left her. Imagine that.

  Carol Lawson : And by the time he started to look for us again, my mother had divorced him and remarried. And now that I've found him, that's all that matters.